What a flight! How can I make light of this? I am on a window seat(bad choice for as many times as I needed to get up). It is bustling around me as I settle myself into my seat. Then I feel a distinct hit in my lower back. Well, it is just people getting settled in for the trip. Oh no. How wrong I can be. It is a 7 year old (?) boy who proceeds tokick the back of my seat for the next 4 hours, about every 30 seconds or so. I tried everything, but either the parents didn't speak English or they had no control over their son. I think it was the latter as at the end of the trip when the engines were shut down, the boy was speaking better ... read more

I am figuring out how this blog works at the eschool office with my guru, Erik. He is so glad that I am falling into the online world with this new adventure. After all, I am a bit over 50 so it doesn't come naturally.... read more